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I have learned to use Tensorflow Object Detection API, learned how to augment images and am yet to find an object I cannot detect.

Will this be true of other fields like chatbots? Where all I need to understand is how to train and inference?

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I work on image segmentation and object detection research. In fact, my work can be found in the classifiers provided by the TensorFlow Object Detection package. I’ll be blunt, we suck at object detection and we really suck at object detection where there’re more than a handful of classes (there’s a reason we use top-k for evaluation) which is most problems. Furthermore, we’re entirely useless when it comes to problems that requires some interpretable taxonomy (e.g. make and model of a car). I encourage you to try some harder problems. :)

Really? I have an image with 180 classes on, so far (slight model config changes from pets tutorial) I've managed to detect 80% of the classes. Don't get me wrong images are similar in both sequence of objects and background (supermarket shelf). I have a budget to bring in a consultant, is this something you'd be interested in?

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